"No bird soars "

One can only fly up as high as they're able to; if others push him/her, s/he might reach levels that are too much for him/her.

(I'm sure others will explain it in a more coherent way)

Thank you !

What is its inside meaning or its implication?

This is how I interpret the saying;

If a man has a position of power, authority and wealth, and his position in life is gained not through his own skills and hard work, but say inherited from his father, than he can not be proud of where he is in life. He might not do his job well and he will not have the respect of others.
But if a man has achieved anyt

RT, what you say in your interpretation is absolutely right in life, but I don't think it agrees with the quote. In fact, the quote sounds very strange to me.

The only thing I can think of is something like: One will only get so far in life if he tries to do everything on his own. But he can achieve far greater things if he lets others help him and guide him along the way. So

I did a little searching and now I found out that the saying is a quote by William Blake. And I believe there was a poem with the same title. Blake's poems are not the most easily understood. His quote here can be understood in several different ways. But after some comtemplation, now I am tending to agree with RT

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I'm pretty sure that this is from one of Blakes longer works: The Marriage of Heaven and ****.
More accurately, this is from a section referred to as the "Proverbs of
****." This little snippet can be found next to proverbs such as "
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," " A dead body
revenges not injuries," and "
The most sublime act is to set another bef

I'm pretty sure that this is from one of Blake’s longer works: The Marriage of Heaven and ****. More accurately, this is from a section referred to as the "Proverbs of ****." This little snippet can be found next to proverbs such as " The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," " A dead body revenges not injuries," and " The most sublime act is to set another before you." Some

Thank you ! Tromos

0 Tromos is correct in saying that it is from The Marriage of Heaven and ****. This is a romantic work by William Blake. Romanticism focused on a number of concepts such as duality, emotion, childhood innocence, spirituality, and most importantly (in my humble opinion), subjective individualism. The last part is partially what the quote points out. As long as man strives on his own, his ability